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First Appearance of Keyhouse / Locke Mansion

Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1 (2008). Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez's 2008 Massachusetts mansion. Keyhouse is the Locke family's ancestral home in Lovecraft, Massachusetts, with magical doors and reality-altering keys. Central to the Locke & Key series.

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Locke & Key #1 (2008). Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez. Keyhouse is established in the series's debut as the central setting.
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Independent Place The Locke family's mystical Massachusetts mansion.

Keyhouse first appears in Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1 (February 2008), Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez, IDW Publishing. The Locke family's ancestral mansion in Lovecraft, Massachusetts contains magical doors and reality-altering keys. The Netflix series (2020-2022) adapted the universe across three seasons.

Firsts Timeline

  1. First Appearance February 2008

    Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1

    By Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodríguez

    Joe Hill writes; Gabriel Rodríguez pencils. IDW Publishing. Keyhouse debuts as the Locke family's ancestral mansion in Lovecraft, Massachusetts. The mansion contains magical doors, reality-altering keys, and the broader Locke & Key mythology. The town name is a Lovecraftian reference.

  2. Netflix Series February 2020

    Locke & Key (Netflix, 2020)

    By Carlton Cuse, Meredith Averill

    Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill develop. The Netflix series adapted the Locke & Key universe across three seasons (2020-2022). The Keyhouse setting was extensively built for the series.

What Keyhouse is

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez introduced Keyhouse in Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1 (February 2008) at IDW Publishing. The Locke family’s ancestral mansion in fictional Lovecraft, Massachusetts contains magical doors and reality-altering keys. The mansion is the central setting of the Locke & Key series. The Netflix adaptation ran three seasons from 2020 to 2022.

Collector context

Locke & Key #1 trades in the four-figure range at CGC 9.8. The book is recognized as a Modern Age IDW key and one of the most-collected non-Big-Two horror titles of the 2000s.

Frequently asked questions

The questions readers and collectors ask most.

What is Keyhouse's first appearance?

Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1 (February 2008), Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez, IDW Publishing.

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